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Thanks, Bonjour.Our mice are pretty fat!
I am using doubled chick wire which is pretty small .
I only need to deter them until the shoots are big enough, so set traps every night until they are,
preferring to sow in the ground and keep the mice down, rather than doing acrobatic “stuff” .
We never had a problem before , but now our cat is too old , it’s me that is the mouser.
If we don’t trap the mice/voles then they also eat the root veg later in the season and of course we don’t use poison . No mice caught last night , so will be sowing peas again today .
They eat my carrots from underground.
The sparrows have had a lovely dust bath in my sown seed bed! It now has netting over it!
They eat my carrots from underground.
My sister successfully grows carrots in an old bathtub. Keeps carrot root fly and mice at bay. Mine used to get eaten from underneath too…😢
Evidently, some sprinkled/sieved wood ash, from hardwood fires (not contaminated with plastic and treated woods) makes your carrots sweeter and when grown next to peas, helps control aphids. Stay away from adding wood ash from strawberries and potatoes though.
Learning as I am going along.
BTW, growing parsnips and carrots in containers (and beetroot) directly in the earth. Will be interesting to see which develop the better.
Must say though, that these covered wicking beds are doing the job atm.
We put all our wood ash on the veg garden ( non sieved) ,on top of the leaf-mulch.We don’t burn anything but our own wood on our stove .
Still too cold here at night to plant most things out , another week or so .
Inside of second wicking bed, showing caulis, artichokes and Toms coming on. This year is the first time doing this, so I think next year I will have learn’t a shed load more as regards which plants to plant and timing schedules etc. But, as of this minute, pretty much everything apart from the peppers are coming along.
Are you going to replant them elsewhere Gleaner, because artichokes are going to be big normaly (1 meter between two plants), and they are supposed to stay in place for the next year. They even multiply if they are happy
I agree with Babeth , Gleaner. We have artichokes , they are perennials if kept protected and need a lot of space .
We plant our cauliflowers 50 cms apart , they take up quite a space too , you can of course , plant some out . Your tomatoes are having trouble with the cold , that is why they have burnt leaves .
If you sow your pea seeds in old toilet roll paper holders. It seems to keep the mice at bay and the cardboard dissipates over time into the ground.
Mice can get through a quarter of an inch gap!
I used to sow runner beans in bog roll tubes and once planted oud it causes less disturbance to the roots, which grow straight through them.
How many peas do you sow in each JD please?
Just one Bonjour.
Mr F. put each little geranium cutting in toilet roll tubes, they’re all in their hanging boxes and tubs waiting to go out, some have started flowering but still on the floor of the greenhouse with all the tubs of petunias, goodness knows when the weather will be right to put them outside! He’s used the tubes for lots of different veg sowing in the past, they work really well.
Too cold here , 2 degrees last night . I think that the cucumber plant that I put in our tunnel won’t make it.
I caught a mouse last night and the night before next to my germinating peas , so far so good .
The Peanut butter does the job !
Saying that , it is already warm enough for ticks , had my first one yesterday !
Horrible things ticks, not sure why they were put on this earth, I can’t think of any good reason! Before we know where we are it will be chigger season – not looking forward to that, neither is the dog!!
Still very chilly but we have at last had a drop of rain so it will at least get the ground ready for when it IS warm enough to put stuff out!
Lots of rain last night , so now the garden is coming up with all sorts of plants ( so called weeds )
More rain forecast but still cold here , peas are poking through in the tunnel , fat mouse caught for the chickens again last night .
Sunny and still cold, Mr F is getting stacked out in the greenhouse with all the potted up plants waiting to go out! Lots of beans on the broad beans but they need to fill out, needs to get warmer!
Rain , rain and more rain, we needed it but not with the cold wind .
I connected up our source to the tank in our politunnel yesterday ( about time ) . Now we can water our plants with spring water. Next is a pump with pressure ” vessie” to bring the water into the house .
Another mouse caught but still too cold for tomatoes etc.
All systems go here , temperature on it’s way up and the dawn chorus was amazing this morning .
No more mice caught and the pea shoots are all still aparent , so looking good today.
If we don’t trap the mice/voles then they also eat the root veg later in the season and of course we don’t use poison . 
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